Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences,Vol. V Edited by Warner Muensterberger and Sidney Axelrad |
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Authors: | James Jackson Martin Grotjahn |
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Affiliation: | 1. Sherman Oaks, California;2. Beverly Hills, California |
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Abstract: | In long-term, open-ended psychotherapy groups in which there are inevitable, yet potentially disruptive changes in membership, therapeutic group culture can become particularly important in sustaining a group's sense of cohesion. This article focuses on how transitional phenomena, as defined by D. W. Winnicott, and representational play serve as vehicles for establishing therapeutic group culture in a preadolescent girls' group. Applications of both transitional phenomena and therapeutic group culture to group stage development, as outlined by Garland, Jones, and Kolodny (1970), will also be explored. |
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